First day of the weekend visit to NH was spent (partly) hiking up Temple Mountain, which is really a series of three or four peaks on a rise stretching southward from near Peterborough. In the old days it was a ski mountain, both downhill and cross-country.

It is now a conservation area and the site of AT&T cell phone towers. There are some official trails running through the property (it is across Rt 101 from Miller State Park and the Pack Monadnock area).

While walking up a sometimes hard-to-discern trail, we found various old parts of the former ski business. Old conduit for electric and perhaps water supplies lay scattered about. At times it was disconcerting to look up and get the sense someone was watching you. The TV-like units are flood lights for the ski slope. There are crumbling cement foundation blocks that may have supported supports for the ski lifts. We came across a maintained stone and dirt roadway which turned out to be the access road to the cell tower facility at the top of the mountain.